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(Slate) Scary Come on, now, could Barack Obama really be a secret Muslim? Answer: yes   (slate.com) divider line 368
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jake_lex [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 11:56:00 AM  
And could Subby be a troll? Answer: probably

 
dgc360 [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 11:56:45 AM  
Being a Muslim isn't scary, submitter. Being a Muslim in today's America is, however.

 
Dead for Tax Reasons [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 11:59:06 AM  
don't be stupid subby. no, he's an advanced scout for an alien invasion

 
elvisbloom [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 11:59:42 AM  
My Mom gets those emails and believes them. I have to debunk each one everytime she gets a new one. Its annoying. The one that really drove me up the wall was the Koran one. She said "I know that for a FACT." sigh.

 
ronin 2008-07-03 12:05:58 PM  
headline: Could John McCain really be the guy who killed Jonbenet Ramsey? Answer: yes

article: Sure, he's not.. but he COULD be.

/I hate misleading bullshiat headlines.
-1

 
baorao 2008-07-03 12:07:01 PM  
I think I am more pissed about the article than the headline.

 
Theaetetus 2008-07-03 12:07:16 PM  
The article is saying that under some interpretations, muslims are allowed to hide their faith... So, according to the article, John McCain could be a secret muslim and have been hiding it all this time. I think this should be investigated - what do we really know about John "Sydney" McCain's faith?

 
jake_lex [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:08:56 PM  
The sad part is TFA is actually pretty good, a good, clear explanation of a part of Islam that's confusing to outsiders, and can be exploited by people who want to try to paint Islam as the religion of terrorism.

Basically, the doctrine of taqiyya boils down to this: if you're standing around and an angry mob holding torches and nooses walks up to you and says "We're getting rid of all the dirty Moslems in this town, are you one?", you don't have to say "Yes. Yes I am."

 
EriksMom 2008-07-03 12:10:30 PM  
elvisbloom:My Mom gets those emails and believes them. I have to debunk each one everytime she gets a new one. Its annoying. The one that really drove me up the wall was the Koran one. She said "I know that for a FACT." sigh.

Fightthesmears.com

 
7of7 [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:12:10 PM  
ronin:article: Sure, he's not.. but he COULD be.

Maybe he is. I'm pretty sure I got an email with facts pointing to him being the killer. He also killed OJ's wife and that little British girl.

 
UNC_Samurai [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:12:31 PM  
Theaetetus:So, according to the article, John McCain could be a secret muslim and have been hiding it all this time.

Why do you think he's trying to cover up the fact that he isn't a natural-born U.S. citizen?

 
Theaetetus 2008-07-03 12:14:18 PM  
UNC_Samurai:Theaetetus:So, according to the article, John McCain could be a secret muslim and have been hiding it all this time.

Why do you think he's trying to cover up the fact that he isn't a natural-born U.S. citizen?


It's true... all this flap about Obama's birth certificate, yet we know he was a natural-born U.S. citizen, with a citizen mother, born in Hawaii. But McCain? He wasn't even born here! Can we really trust a foreigner in our country's highest office, particularly when his Northern Vietnamese friends are endorsing him for President?

 
Kiribub [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:15:49 PM  
Do I give a shiat if he's a Muslim? No, I do not.

 
eddie van heinous 2008-07-03 12:18:59 PM  
ronin:Could John McCain really be the guy who killed Jonbenet Ramsey? Answer: yes

I KNEW IT!

*sends emails*

 
jerry2a 2008-07-03 12:21:27 PM  
That's nothing...I heard that Barack Obama fathered two black children.

 
Suicidal Writer 2008-07-03 12:22:43 PM  

 
Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:22:58 PM  
I'm concerned that nobody has ever strenuously explored the possibility that McCain, while being tortured in Vietnam, might have had some deep, subliminal commands implanted into his subconscious turning him, for all intents and purposes, into a walking time bomb. There could be some signal set decades ago that will activate this hidden wiring in his brain, and if the man's president, lord knows what could happen? This is a real issue, and I frankly think it's disgusting that the major media hasn't devoted more time to it.

 
Kitwilly [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:25:33 PM  
I hear that if Obama wins that he is going to have to go through extra security measures each day to get into the white house, cause of his name and stuff.

Mr. President, please remove your shoes.

Oh, man, again?!

 
Kiribub [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:26:43 PM  
Suicidal Writer:The 5 worst ways to sneak a secret Muslim into the White House

Dude... are you functionally impaired?

 
pwhp_67 2008-07-03 12:28:07 PM  
i37.photobucket.com

 
BearToy [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:30:01 PM  
Kiribub:Do I give a shiat if he's a Muslim? No, I do not.

Of course not. It shouldn't matter to anyone.
But to the average American pig ignorant, superstitious, dipshiat it is vitally important.


home.roadrunner.com

 
Snarfangel [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:30:46 PM  
There's a man who leads a life of danger
On every rug he prays he stays a stranger
With every move he makes another chance he takes
Odds are he won't live to see Eid ul-Fitr

Secret Muslim man, secret Muslim man
They've given you a Barry and taken away Hussein

/heh

 
CrankMyBlueSax 2008-07-03 12:31:48 PM  
I heard both major candidates eat the brains of newborns, and dance naked neath the light of the moon.

We're Doomed. Game over, man. Oh Noes !!!!!!

 
mafromhell [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:32:07 PM  
FTA: Are Muslims allowed to pass?


WTF?

 
UNC_Samurai [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:37:29 PM  
Pocket Ninja:I'm concerned that nobody has ever strenuously explored the possibility that McCain, while being tortured in Vietnam, might have had some deep, subliminal commands implanted into his subconscious turning him, for all intents and purposes, into a walking time bomb. There could be some signal set decades ago that will activate this hidden wiring in his brain, and if the man's president, lord knows what could happen? This is a real issue, and I frankly think it's disgusting that the major media hasn't devoted more time to it.

Please don't go there. I have spent a year trying to convince an otherwise rational, conservative, lapsed Republican that McCain is not the Manchurian Candidate and was not single-handedly responsible for trying to sink the Forrestal.

 
Skleenar 2008-07-03 12:38:33 PM  
Actually, according to the article, No, Barack can't be a secret muslim.

Unless, of course, not winning the presidency of the US is the same thing as being oppressed.

In which case, EVERY AMERICAN IN THE WORLD except George W Bush COULD BE A SECRET MUSLIM!!!!1

 
Skleenar 2008-07-03 12:40:10 PM  
UNC_Samurai:McCain is not the Manchurian Candidate and was not single-handedly responsible for trying to sink the Forrestal.

McCain is a Manchurian candidate who attempted to sink the Forrestal!?!?!!!


I'm sending an e-mail to all my family members.

 
2wolves 2008-07-03 12:43:45 PM  
If so he's damned himself by eating pork. So he's a really bad secret muslim.

 
Barbigazi [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:45:13 PM  
Skleenar:UNC_Samurai:McCain is not the Manchurian Candidate and was not single-handedly responsible for trying to sink the Forrestal.

McCain is a Manchurian candidate who attempted to sink the Forrestal!?!?!!!


I'm sending an e-mail to all my family members.


I heard that he was forced to take it in the pooper, that is how they broke him.

 
DslainteC [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 12:50:54 PM  
Dude 1: Yo, what's Obama's faith? That's important to me.
Dude 2: He's part of the Abrahamic religions.
Dude 1: Wha? What's that?
Dude 2: They're the monotheistic religions that include Abraham. You know, Christians, Jews, Musl...
Dude 1: Whoa! That umbrella is too big. He's got to narrow it down.
Dude 2: There's a lot of commonality amongst those. But I think he's a Christian.
Dude 1: That's good. I ain't voting for no jew or mooslim.
Dude 2: Isn't Christianity a pretty big umbrella, too?
Dude 1: Not really. We all believe in Jesus and...
Dude 2: Ya, but there are so many conflicting denominations amongst Christians. What if he doesn't share the same dogma as you?
Dude 1: Dogma, shmogma. He believes in Jesus; that's all that counts.
Dude 2: He's a Catholic.
Dude 1: WHAT? GTFO of here!
Dude 2: I thought it didn't matter which denom...
Dude 1: Catholics aren't really Christians.
Dude 2:*sigh* Okay, I think he's really a Protestant.
Dude 1: Now we're talking.
Dude 2: Ya, he's one of those snake-handling, poison-drinking hillbilly believers.
Dude 1: Um...really?
Dude 2: What's wrong with that?
Dude 1: I thought you meant he was a normal Christian. You know, like Baptist.
Dude 2: Actually, I think you're right; he is Baptist.
Dude 1: Hallelujah!
Dude 2: He belongs to the "God hates fags" baptist church.
Dude 1: No effin' way!
Dude 2: Oh ya...he's a real homo-hater.
Dude 1: Really? I mean...I don't like fags either, but...c'mon, he can't really be like that, can he?
Dude 2: Of course not. Say, why does his faith matter to you anyway?
Dude 1: I dunno, it just does. And I ain't votin' for no jew or mooslim. I'm only votin' for someone with Christ's love in their heart.
Dude 2: What if he was an atheist?
Dude 1: Then he'll burn in hell.
Dude 2: That's some nice lovin', Lou.

 
Theaetetus 2008-07-03 12:51:45 PM  
Hey, I just heard that McCain was brainwashed by the North Vietnamese, and if he becomes President, he's going to sink all of our aircraft carriers.

 
CrankMyBlueSax 2008-07-03 12:54:50 PM  
Theaetetus:Hey, I just heard that McCain was brainwashed by the North Vietnamese, and if he becomes President, he's going to sink all of our aircraft carriers.

With MIND BULLETS

i28.photobucket.com

 
BobtheFascist 2008-07-03 12:55:37 PM  
I don't care what he does in private. It's what he does in public that matters.

 
McCainDemocrat 2008-07-03 12:56:42 PM  
It's not his religion, it's his lack of directness about his religion. Especially about his time in Indonesia, where he is reported as being a regular attendee of a Mosque. That runs counter to the claims on his fightthesmears website.

 
CougarJeff [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 01:08:44 PM  
McCainDemocrat:It's not his religion, it's his lack of directness about his religion. Especially about his time in Indonesia, where he is reported as being a regular attendee of a Mosque. That runs counter to the claims on his fightthesmears website.

WHARRGARBL

 
DeltaXi65 [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-07-03 01:09:27 PM  
McCainDemocrat

For fark's sake, how could the man be any more direct about his religion? He's given multiple speeches on religion, done TV ads about his Christianity and talked about it in two books.

He's not a muslim. Jesus.

 
JerseyTim [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 01:10:44 PM  
My absolute favorite part about the Obama Secret Muslim Plot is the way people act like by selecting him, it will have been some Muslim coup. Like, immediately we'll all be forced to convert to Islam and Sharia law will be imposed.

I guess after eight years of Bush, people just assume the president can do fark all he wants.

 
antidisestablishmentarianism 2008-07-03 01:14:16 PM  
McCainDemocrat:It's not his religion, it's his lack of directness about his religion. Especially about his time in Indonesia, where he is reported as being a regular attendee of a Mosque. That runs counter to the claims on his fightthesmears website.

I would rather have a leader who is not at all religious. Look what religion has given us in part or in whole over the course of written history:

The Crusades
WWII
The Spanish Inquisition
I think the 100 years war as well
French and English wars

 
cameroncrazy1984 [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 01:15:43 PM  
DeltaXi65:McCainDemocrat

For fark's sake, how could the man be any more direct about his religion? He's given multiple speeches on religion, done TV ads about his Christianity and talked about it in two books.

He's not a muslim. Jesus.


Jesus isn't a Muslim, either.

 
robsul82 [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 01:16:18 PM  
McCainDemocrat:It's not his religion, it's his lack of directness about his religion. Especially about his time in Indonesia, where he is reported as being a regular attendee of a Mosque. That runs counter to the claims on his fightthesmears website.

It's true. danlpoon saw him there when he was traveling.

 
Skleenar 2008-07-03 01:16:56 PM  
DeltaXi65:He's not a muslim. JesusMohammed.

 
DeltaXi65 [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-07-03 01:16:56 PM  
cameroncrazy1984

Can we be sure? I mean, this article says if he's a Shiite he could be faking.

 
tgregory 2008-07-03 01:19:38 PM  
jake_lex:And could Subby be a troll? Answer: probably

he's just listing an article. lash out at "the slate" if your vagina hurts.

dgc360:Being a Muslim isn't scary, submitter.

no, but someone running for president purposefully hiding that fact is scary. (if it's even true)

 
SphericalTime [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 01:21:08 PM  
DeltaXi65:For fark's sake, how could the man be any more direct about his religion? He's given multiple speeches on religion, done TV ads about his Christianity and talked about it in two books.

He's not a muslim. Jesus.


Yeah, but he hasn't directly talked to McCainDemocrat about his faith, so of course he's being evasive.

 
Skleenar 2008-07-03 01:22:37 PM  
CougarJeff:WHARRGARBL



All responses to McDMT from now on shall be in the form of a Haiku:


in Indonesia

it's his lack of directness

WHARRGARBL


img386.imageshack.us

 
abb3w [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 01:30:17 PM  
McCainDemocrat:Especially about his time in Indonesia, where he is reported as being a regular attendee of a Mosque.

imgs.xkcd.com

 
Di Atribe [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 01:30:40 PM  
JerseyTim:My absolute favorite part about the Obama Secret Muslim Plot is the way people act like by selecting him, it will have been some Muslim coup. Like, immediately we'll all be forced to convert to Islam and Sharia law will be imposed.

Awesome. I look HOT in a burkha.

 
ronin 2008-07-03 01:38:11 PM  
eddie van heinous:ronin:Could John McCain really be the guy who killed Jonbenet Ramsey? Answer: yes

I KNEW IT!

*sends emails*



Make sure your email contains "Facts".

FACT: John McCain is a white male. Statistically, JonBenet Ramsey was probably killed by a white man.

FACT: John McCain is a member of the Republican party, and in the last several years, it has been proven that Republicans have a problem controlling perverse urges when it comes to underage children. (it should be noted that usually the Republicans prey on male children. Perhaps McCain was confused by the child's name, thinking that it was Jon Ramsey and that Benet was just a middle name?)

FACT: John McCain was seen leaving his house on December 24, 1996 with a bag labeled "Child-Murdering Kit". THIS IS A FACT.

FACT: John McCain is really old. Back when he was younger, it was acceptable for adult men to sexually abuse and murder children.

FACT: John McCain was sworn into office on the Necronomicon.

Seriously, we checked Snopes (so you wouldn't have to, so don't bother) and all of the above is true.


If you love America, forward this to everyone you know.

 
Snarfangel [TotalFark] 2008-07-03 01:38:51 PM  
Di Atribe:JerseyTim:My absolute favorite part about the Obama Secret Muslim Plot is the way people act like by selecting him, it will have been some Muslim coup. Like, immediately we'll all be forced to convert to Islam and Sharia law will be imposed.

Awesome. I look HOT in a burkha.


That's nothing. I feel hot in a burkha.

 
Satan_Sunburn 2008-07-03 01:38:56 PM  
Pocket Ninja:I'm concerned that nobody has ever strenuously explored the possibility that McCain, while being tortured in Vietnam, might have had some deep, subliminal commands implanted into his subconscious turning him, for all intents and purposes, into a walking time bomb. There could be some signal set decades ago that will activate this hidden wiring in his brain, and if the man's president, lord knows what could happen? This is a real issue, and I frankly think it's disgusting that the major media hasn't devoted more time to it.

Damnit! I thought we covered this yesterday!

 
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